154 FRUIT RANCHING. 



Of the mid-season varieties, the most desirable is, 

 beyond question, Cox's Orange Pippin, and of the 

 other four, unquestionably the finest in point of 

 flavour is Mcintosh Red. It also yields heavily, 

 besides being a very handsome, dark-red apple, 

 vith a heavy whitish bloom. Both Gravenstein and 

 Wealthy, again, are of first-rate quality and good 

 bearers; but, being comparatively early, they will not 

 travel far, and in the Kootenays they have been 

 planted, perhaps, in excess. In the list of winter 

 varieties, neither Wagner nor Baldwin is the equal in 

 point of quality of the rest of the varieties named; 

 but both sell well, and Wagner is useful as a " filler " 

 — that is, to fill up the spaces between the main crop 

 varieties during the early stages of their growth. 

 Delicious is comparatively new, and it has scarcely 

 found its proper place in the market, although, per- 

 haps because it is still scarce, it fetches high prices. 

 Accepting these statements, and remembering that 

 only certain of the varieties in the list have been pro- 

 perly tested in the Kootenays, it would appear that 

 the best apples for planting are Cox's Orange Pippin, 

 Mcintosh Red, Jonathan, Spitzenberg, Yellow New- 

 town Pippin, Rome Beauty, and Northern Spy. All 

 the same, the fruit grower who should plant any of 

 those enumerated in the last-printed table, on p. 153, 

 would not make any serious mistake, taking care, of 

 course, to have a proper proportion between mid- 

 season and winter varieties. 



All apples in British Columbia, irrespectively of 

 the variety and irrespectively of the size, are packed 

 into a box of uniform dimensions — namelv, 20in. 

 long, llin. wide, lOin. deep; and on one end of 



